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Expand Up @@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ Open "Windows Services", search for the service named "gitea", right-click it an
"Run". If everything is OK, Gitea will be reachable on `http://localhost:3000` (or the port
that was configured).

## Service startup type

It was observed that on loaded systems during boot Gitea service may fail to start with timeout records in Windows Event Log.
In that case change startup type to `Automatic-Delayed`. This can be done during service creation, or by running config command

```
sc.exe config gitea start= delayed-auto
```

## Adding startup dependencies

To add a startup dependency to the Gitea Windows service (eg Mysql, Mariadb), as an Administrator, then run the following command:
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